- From: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:09:27 +0000
- To: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com>, W3C e-Gov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Hi, Switched subject line... On 8 November 2010 23:28, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote: > Your other point ... > > Latitude and Longitude are a complete coordinate system - the ordering is a continuous function. Entity Names and Vocabulary > Encoding Schemes form a complete set, something a bit different. Every satellite picture is aimed at someone's back yard, but to > conclude there is something is special (significant) about *that* back yard is a logical fallacy. When Governments report statistical > information, they report by region, not by point. You can enumerate a set of points of interest, but there is not much value in > enumerating the whole coordinate system and backfilling. My point was that there's nothing about RDF -- as a data model -- that stops it being used to publish data about a co-ordinate system like lat/long or another other continuous function: if I can define a URI scheme for it, then I can make statements about it. One value in that kind of dynamic or "algorithmic" URI scheme is that it can provides relationships to other useful concepts. One of which might be references to an administrative geography. This might allow me to find, e.g. crime figures for a particular area. I can jump from lat/long to administrative geography to government statistics. A related example from a different domain are the time based URIs created for data.gov.uk which are described here: http://www.epimorphics.com/web/wiki/using-interval-set-uris-statistical-data Cheers, L. -- Leigh Dodds Programme Manager, Talis Platform Talis leigh.dodds@talis.com http://www.talis.com
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